The Paris Review: Vol 208 (Spring) - Softcover

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9781782113270: The Paris Review: Vol 208 (Spring)

Synopsis

The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing.

Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Lorin Stein's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date.

This edition includes: Fiction by Luke Mogelson, Ben Lerner, Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk and Bill Cotter: Interviews with Adam Phillips and Matthew Weiner: Poetry by Dorothea Lasky, Frederick Seidel, John Ashberry, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Carol Muske-Dukes and Nick Laird: Portfolio by Francesca Woodman: Document by Gemma Sieff.

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About the Author

The Paris Review was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.S. Byatt, T.C. Boyle, William T. Vollmann and many other writers who have given us great literature of the past half century. Philip Gourevitch was named editor of The Paris Reviewin 2005, succeeding George Plimpton, who was editor from 1953 until his death in 2003. Lorin Stein is the current editor.

Review

* One of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century - and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful -- Margaret Atwood

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